John Green - Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)

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You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

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You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

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"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

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Me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

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Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.

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Dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

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I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

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It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

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Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

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I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance...

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Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

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There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

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Whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

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And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

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He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic skipper, then that's his right as a huge American.

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Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

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It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

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Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want.

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Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.

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Tiny Cooper is splayed out across the thin carpet, using his backpack as a pillow. He's wearing skinny jeans, which look very much like denim sausage casings.

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What i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

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Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

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Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that she has a secret boyfriend? Also, if you don't call me back within five minutes, I'm going to assume you found a way back to Evanston. Furthermore, you are an asshat. That is all.

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I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

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You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

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What's your name ? Hazel. No, your full name. Um, Hazel Grace Lancaster.

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I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

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Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.

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I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.

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